HOT TAKE : it takes more then one episode to see if you like an anime

Can we get an "objectively" counter? My favorite one was "objectively in my opinion"

The biggest problem with isekai, is that they don't need to be isekai in the first place

The takes are so hot, KZfaq took it down and he had to reupload it.

Wonder why the reuplload🤨 Never mind it’s the sponser.

Hot take: I was reborn as a fleshlight would be an S tier anime

As a One Piece fan, I've never heard any other One Piece fan say they like the pacing 😂 Really liked the video though

5:14 if you wanna skip the ad and the intro *don’t worry as usual he re explains what the video is about as usual 😂

Omg internet man just said my name

21:55 "Now im not saying One Piece is a simple story." Literally 30 seconds earlier "One Piece is kind of a simple story." I mean this in the nicest way possible. i just thought it was funny that he immediately contradicted himself

We neeeed a part 2! 🙏

Hot take: Togashi should switch to light noval where he can dictate the story and his assistant can write it. Later someone else can draw the manga

27:20 Since the "you can see it Mahoraga! you can see my cursed Technique!!!!" I do kinda like Sukunas English VA

Honestly, i thought the theme of hunter hunter was the power of desire. Like they hunt after something, or desire something, and its all the journey of each person having a core motivator and their responses to it. Gon's unhealthy mental state and attachment, killua not having one of his own at first and being impressionable at first to becoming extremely solid in it, hisokas... take on desire... and kurapikas all consuming desire for revenge. Its all about individuality and motivating desires more than just, oh look, exploration. Or i could be wrong, i never read the manga

17:07 I don't joke when I say this, I genuinely felt a blood vessel pulse on my head when he lumped Overlord in with the average isekai. But... it is what it is...

JJK SPOILERS: Itadori being the son of Kenjaku should have played into the story more, and Kenjaku could have used this knowledge to gain Yuji's trust to tempt him into gaining the dark power needed to kill Sukuna... All in a bid to create a sorcerer even more powerful than Sukuna himself (since Kenny just cares about ultimate destruction).

Explaining what JJK would be if Sukuna was the MC just sounds like an Isekai haha 😂

Absolutely need a part2 or even 3, we got a lot of manga hiatus to pass the time during

Im enjoying Mushuko Tensei. Don't like the Harem thing or the pervy stuff but right now Rudy's emotional journey is interesting, the combat is good, and the supporting characters are intriguing. Don't blame anyone for not liking it though cause trying to get through the beginning is hard

Keep up the awesome work and videos Nick love the video

33:00 yes. people who actually understand and comprehend the story and lesson of Vinland Saga, know this. You could even go as far to say that, Vinland Saga gives us more content, art, and meaningful lessons WAY more effectivley. (In reference to quantity to quality, ratio, possibly even from quality alone)

19:02 I MEAN its like a known thing... that if it wasnt for the constant breaks... we wouldnt even have a "big 3" we would have a big 4 with HXH. i mean part of me is glad it isnt like that? but at the same time it deserves the title because of how fucking good HXH is

As a One Piece fan who marathoned like 700ish episodes last year to get caught-ish up, The one piece anime's pacing is absolute crap. The 1 chapter per episode model is a BAAAAAD one. If you want to get into one piece: Read the Manga or wait for "The One Piece" because I PROMISE, especially later in the series, the OP anime's pacing WILL murder your soul. The padding in the episodes is unbearable. Still frames from the manga that would be snap-reactions get STREEEREETCHED over ridiculously long periods of background foley. So many pregnant pauses. So much airtime given to "last time on" that stretches ba 5 or six episodes. I LOVE OP's world, story, and characters. I am bordering on hatred for the current anime as it stands.

I 100% agree with Stockholm Syndrome on One Piece episodes. Initially i love the beginning of the anime however slowly it became a chore to me and I slowly hated the hype and the extremist OP fans. I had an acquaintance who loved One Piece and we only talk/discuss about OP whenever we meet. Sadly he passed away months before Oda revealed that Luffy ate the God(?) fruit instead of rubber. I felt devastated knowing that my friend couldnt see that part. I somehow felt betrayed and sad for my friend. So yeah, F you Oda for making it unnecessary long. Dude took 1000+ episodes just to troll his fans.

2 hot takes 1. I rather have the pervert character/teacher trope over tsundere punching main character trope any day. 2. Rock Lee and Vegeta fans are the same. One just have way more screen time then the other.

Great video, if you make this a series I feel like it would be great to do it with Danny (as a video or segment on the podcast)

nick was defiantly his ELA teachers favourite student

Coming from someone who loves anime but refuses to start One Piece because of the time investment of watching 1200 episodes, I can agree 10,000% with the last take!

For as long as I can remember One Piece has been too long for me to start. I’m 31 and I remember being in middle school thinking this looks cool I’ll buy the dvds and binge it when it’s over. HA!

Nick could make a 5 quickfire anime questions video and it'd be 25 minutes long 😂

As a proud Canadian, "Lake Superior is in America" is the hottest take in this video 😂. (Yes I know it is in both countries)

Thank you for covering this MYRIAD of hot takes.

Crazy that youtube took the video down

Ranking manga/anime characters outfits would go crazy. I like the dystopian future shit the most (tekkonkinkreet, dorohedoro, tengoku daimakyo)

More videos like this are necessary!!

I would love to see more of these. Don't ask for more though, keep going with the ones you got.

Hot Take: Filler that isnt retconned (or further conflict with main story) should be considered canon by fans/analysts

Hot take: Togashi should draw his manga if he wants to (I can’t believe this is a hot take, seriously guys respect you authors)

I’m just glad none of the hot takes regarded light novel adaptations

Hot take : Griffith is a more tragic character than guts.

The thorfin take is fine, but why were they compared in the first place? Like wouldn't naruto make for a better comparison? Ion really think luffy is the most inspirational ever either, cuz by his own admission, he does things for himself and doesn't want to be this heroic figure or whatnot. But Luffy and throfin feel like a weird comp.

great video man! I have that same shirt W drip

It’s funny how Nick is like “I’ve seen isekai before I don’t need to see ___” and it’s some of the widely consdiered better isekais out there that he doesn’t wanna watch lmao

If you skip the recap and the preview for one piece and episode is like 15 minutes . If u sit there and watch the whole thing every time that’s a skill issue or a lack of attention span.

Why did it get reuploaded?

Please make a part two

Jesus his beard grew back quick

Hot take: cg is very good for making part of a scene really pop and stick out. Few examples the crystal scorpions from shangri la, or shigarakis giant finger mutation. They stick out in the scene, also giving a big contrast to our 2d characters and surroundings to say ‘look at me’

My hot take, every genin in the Sasuke retrieval arc would have better served the story if they died.

Jjk / Gege catching so many strays just because of the last 10 yet to be concluded chapters oh my lord lmfao

You know what would be a great ending for One Piece? Having the One Piece be something that Luffy would have to sacrifice his crew for or something. Like their memories, their connections, their relationships etc. As Luffy just with the quickest most nonchalant answer being "if that's what it takes to get the One Piece, then who needs it! It's worthless then compared to them." Kind of like how FMA:B ending was, where Ed willingly gave up his alchemy, despite being the STRONGEST alchemist in the world by that point, because he put more value into his loved ones than any status or power.

Camp fire cooking Isekai was so good, you'll feel good while watching, Mukoda the MC is so wholesome and kind, and Fel is so maxed out and buffed that you'll have no anxiety of something bad will happen to them, I can watch it every weekend forever tbh.

I am a One Piece fan. 100%. It is my favourit work of fiction/ art, i have been watching it for over 10 now and am reading the manga since 2016. This story kept me alive through some of the worst parts of my live, especially when i was still a child and my world broke down around me. I will never not love this story, it will never leave my number one spot. But... I think there are better stories out there and i think Hunter x Hunter is one of them. Edit: Although Hunter x Hunter being bigger than One Piece is still (sadly) a stretch due to the problems you mentioned in the video

Something to note with JJK though, is that the guy actually translating the chapters isn't the best translator. I don't read Japanese, so I don't know how good it is explained in Japanese, but I do know that JJK currently has some pretty incorrect translations.

When talking about more fun isekai. I really like a realist hero rebuilds a kingdom.

Why re-upload??😮

Hating on Mushoku Tensei at this point is insane edit: One Piece is an "objectively simple" story? C'mon bro lol

Okay Nick hear me out, danny should go by dmsickle and have the podcast be called the hammer and sickle podcast

I just started One Piece on April 12th. I caught up with the anime on May 28th. I will say 100% that if someone chooses to watch all of one piece they will be rewarded with a great world full of fun characters, but also as someone who spent at least a decade or more not watching one piece because it was too long despite the praise of many people I hold dear, that show is way too fucking long to either suggest or insist that someone watch. Worth it if you want to, not if you don't.

Mitsuri had no focus in the swordsman village and their only role was to keep hantwngu at bay

I agree with hot take 7, Sukuna is the MC, the whole story after zero revolves around him. but just because he is the MC doesn't mean he is not the villain. I don't remember the name so maybe some could help me but the best example is a really older anime where the first one or two episodes follows a solder in a post apocalypse looking for something, by the end of the first few episodes you find out the solder is evil and trying to destroy the world and the rest of the series is every trying to stop him., The whole story revolves around him but he is still the villain; I think the same thing applies to Sukuna, both the protagonist and the antagonist goals of the majority of the manga revolves around him thus making him the main character.

Don’t kiss that mic ever again

The thing with the dub vs sub debate is that a lot of our introductions to anime was through the medium of 4kids who made some of the worse censors and localizations and those things made people mix up bad dubs with the censorship and localizations

Honestly with the KAI version one piece isn’t super long and the pacing is really good, ok it’s not jjk season 2 pacing but it still is very good

Hot take: Isekai anime although overdone is still enjoyable to watch as long as it isnt too pervy or overdone

I hate when the anime changes names from the manga. Eg. nyaka from chainsaw man being meowy. Or ashelad being askelad in vinland saga

Do a part 2 cuz my hot take is that Code Geass has the most perfectly written ending in anime

My biggest hot take. Lost Paradise is in actuality the sequel to HxH. The writer got tired and just made the island themself. Main character looks like Killua too.

Gonna be honest for the longest time I though Gogo was the mc for jjk until I looked up the anime cause all I heard was "Did you see what Gogo did this week!?"

I feel like the mc potential of a villian that is just the strongest by being the absolute worst makes the catharsis of him finally being put down all that more rewarding especially if they are in on it "is this it? Is this the one who will finally fight past my cheating and bull finally!!!" Dont know if this has been done effectively yet, but im entertained by the idea. I also feel like the mc needing to be that underdog just inherently being the better option be limited in storytelling potential, like anime can continue to branch out, be a lot of different things.

Please make videos about the Jewelpet anime. It is better than the entire shonen genre, and with the major modern shonens winding down, the stage is being set for a massive Jewelpet revival.

Do you think that by taking the hot takes with the most votes you are artificially taking the least 'hot' of a take?

If hunter hunter didn’t have breaks it’d prolly be over by now but it would probably need better illustration to be even close to one piece. My hot take is that 58 years old is relatively young for a profession that barely requires you to draw black and white designs.(I have beef w togashi)Especially considering his chapters aren’t that well drawn girls from my high school put out similar drawings in high school

My preference with sub over dub is that I don't understand Japanese and thus can have a certain level of separation, and because I generally find the delivery of lines better. If cringey stuff happens, I'd rather hear it in a language I don't understand. I am also not in the mood to gamble if the English VA work for an anime is good or bad. Even if the JP VA work is bad, again at least its in a language I don't understand so I don't have to scrunch myself into ball hearing bad line delivery.

12:32 I personally casually enjoy very complicated series, it’s in my opinion it’s just a different audience, like I’m a major JoJo fan, take part seven, the insane conceptualized power that is the spin is irrationally complicated sometimes but that’s why I read this casually. My Casual is taking Fun in these Irrationally complicated concepts, which is is part of the reason I enjoy jjk. Another point is the existence of genre such as mystery, they exist to be read by someone who wants to put in the effort to theorize the mysteries and wait in anticipation until it’s revealed, this is the casual for people who read mystery stories. But that’s just my take

Create your own anime kingdom. King Queen Prince Princess Left hand Right hand Cook Bodyguard General Doctor Julius Novachrono Merlin from Seven Deadly Sins Adam from Ragnarok Tatsumaki Kisuke Urahara Itachi Charmy Genos Yamamoto Law

The eminence in shadow is one of my favorite isekai anime. It feels like a parody of the shitty isekai that you tend to think of when you hear the word. A good example is when Shadow is playing the piano underground and it gives off that cheesy cliché, and then it shows people trying to find a missing piano from where he stole it... HE STOLE A PIANO for a dramatic scene. And as you said, it's also true that the MC doesn't care about having a harem at all. They tend to do their own thing while Shadow does his. They basically all love him BUT when they actually try something, you'll often find him on the ceiling hiding from them, so that he can go back to being a chuunibyo. It gets serious sometimes too, and while it might not have much depth, it makes up for it in HYPE.

I think Isekai is probably so popular because the world was so stopped during covid people were wishing they could be somewhere else. Now they are so busy catching up they don’t have time to enjoy fun life things.

As someone who will admit that One Piece is their favorite anime I will admit that the pacing and high episode count was what kept me away for years because it seemed so daunting. Like when I started it was close to 1000 episodes and that seemed insane to me so whenever I knew there was stuff I wasn’t super interested in or way too much fluff or slow pacing I used it as background for whatever else I was doing. That is not something that should be okay for a popular anime or to keep people engaged in a story so I’m hoping the new anime is much better with the pacing to get more people into the amazing story of One Piece.

He never uses the actual tier list.

Three things and ironically all One Piece related lol: 1. Ya A LOT of the government is bad but it's not fully corrupted even the revolutionary army doesn't want it all gone 2. I don't think it's a hot take to say the One Piece Anime is too long because most people understand that. ya people with Stockholm might say otherwise but I think that's the minority 3. I like most of the filler in One Piece not because it's amazing but because it adds to the adventure and usually has something of value so I personally think the long run time is fine but not the scenes they drag out to extend the length of an arc for no good reason or the constant flash backs of things we've already seen. Hopefully that makes sense

Again, Hot Take: Konosuba is the funnier, cooler version of Mushoku Tensei

show don't tell what about that episode of hxh where there just moving pictures and they tell you everything even a character walking in an elevator

Hot Take: I would’ve rather had Boruto and Kawaki be the reincarnations of Indra and Ashura, instead of Sasuke and Naruto. The reincarnation bit kind of ruins Sasuke and Naruto’s journey, especially Naruto’s. In shippuden, Naruto becomes a chosen one character instead of the underdog, cursed child, that he was in og Naruto. Naruto didn’t need to be a reincarnation of a god to become Hokage and have the village to accept him, he achieved half of that during the Pain Arc. I would’ve rather had Naruto stay a nobody than a prophetic hero like he was in the war. That way all his achievements are his own, instead of being the result of a divine intervention/reincarnation. Same with Sasuke. That also makes it more interesting because then instead of Sasuke and Naruto’s rivalry being partially a product of the influence of tneir reincarnations, it’s truly just about two friends who were alone and then took different paths to get what they wanted. Then after Naruto becomes Hokage and Sasuke comes back to the village, have Naruto’s son, Boruto, become the reincarnation. The son of the hero of the fourth Great Ninja War works better as a chosen one character, especially since Boruto’s already more talented than he ever was. It just fits better in my opinion. [Also before anyone says anything, I’m not saying Naruto and Sasuke didn’t work hard for their achievements, I just think they didn’t need to be godly reincarnations to do some of them]

Really enjoyed my uncle from another world

(Rant incoming, I honestly wrote down my thoughts and I haven't actually finished the video. By the time I'm writing this, I'm 18:16 into the video, but I just wanted to share my opinions. Just please note, Im some random kid in a spinney chair who wanted to share his thoughts.) I'm not an isekai fan, I simply don't find most isekai enjoyable. But I do feel like you did them a bit dirty. Moonlit Fantasy, Mushoku Tensei, and Eminence in Shadow all are very unoriginal, yes. But that's just the base line. Strong Guy gets a harem, blah blah blah, bad story writing. But that's unfair, just like demon slayer, while these series are on a straight line, its the characters and world that keep one invested. For Eminence In Shadow, seeing how Cid interacts with a world he views as a playground IS a very enjoyable idea that rightfully so grasped many peoples attention. Mushoku is about relationships, its clear that we are not supposed to like Rudy, in fact, we are not supposed to like MOST of the cast. But despite all these very bad people leading the show, its popular because the world and their interactions are enjoyable. We see these bad people in Mushoku for all they are worth, we see them at their lowest, both morally and physically, and yet, we see them at their best in the same light. Look at Paul, he's a cheating bastard of a father who would rather beat his son than fix himself. But despite this view of him, we can clearly see hes just a father who loves the people around him too much, we see how he hates himself for his mistakes, and we see him try to fix himself. An argument for both sides can be made quite easily as these characters, unlike in other series, aren't just 2D, they feel real. Moonlit Fantasy is probably the toughest to defend, which sucks as its one of my favorites. Moonlit isn't creative, and in my opinion, it doesn't have many tropes to make it worth while. The protag is fine, but there are a lot better. The characters aren't realistic, they worship him, and hate those who insult him while wanting to have his babies and what not. The thing is, the story of the series is what carries it. Its honestly very formulaic and generic, but the way the story takes our protags mini revenge plot is very interesting. The world of Moonlit is a good one, and while the protags group isn't super interesting, we get a lot of time to see other characters who are very interesting, like the other hero's, or the demons. I'm not gonna sit here and say your wrong, because your not wrong, these series are generic, and have similar tropes and are often times boring. But I will say that judging them by a stereotype isn't fair, if you are to comment on a series, finish it, and try to see what the series could be trying to say. Saying that a series isn't good because the main character is strong and has people who love them isn't fair at all. If we go by that trope, then why do we consider the first 2 seasons of SAO to be good? I mean, they follow the same trope, and dont say its because it was the "first of its kind to do it like that" because it wasnt. People enjoy the first two seasons of SAO because the characters and the world are worth investing time into. That's all for my tedtalk, sorry for ranting, and please feel free to correct me since I'm too lazy to finish the video and find out if I misinterpreted what he was saying. I thank everyone for reading, please have a good night!

Inspiration is subjective

Idk demon Slayer blows bc it's simple. And by simple I mean there's just no substance to it. Nothing is ever explained, all the cool stuff that should be elaborated on just gets brushed over to skip to the next battle. Simple isn't bad I LOVE mob psycho 100 and it's simple as hell. But demon Slayer is simple in all the wrong ways

Raw > subs > dubs and anyone who knows even basic Japanese knows this is true. They change content in subs and even more so in dubs.

Wit making a remake for OP is great for OG and new comers. I can’t wait

Nick you should definitely give the German goku a try i think that’s the greatest voice actor I’ve ever heard!!!

in what way was one piece ever about taking down EVERY warlord or EVERY yonko? they took on several warlords but a couple of them took his side and he only took down 50% of the yonko, one of which was a side quest to get a crew member back

Togashi would’ve written about 100-150 chapters of the dark continent and gotten bored and went to some other idea

My hot take is phantom seer should’ve sold more same with shadow eliminators and black torch

5:16 video starts

Potential hot take: Gege isn’t writing JJK poorly, John weary is making it hard to understand

Can someone explain something to me about jjk? So it’s pretty well understood that binding vows are the loose screw in the jjk power system but one part of it is explained. A pact with multiple people involved can have very extreme consequences that can vary wildly in how the consequences play out. In the same conversation where that is explained it tells the consequences of breaking a pact put on yourself (I’m getting this all from the English dub so that may be where the problem comes from.) if you break a vow you put on yourself, you lose the benefits you gained from your limitation. Which is very mild considering what it could be. So my question? Useless miwa, she made a vow that she would never touch a sword again in exchange for a massive power increase that did absolutely nothing for her. Her sword broke. Boom done. What is to stop her from getting a new sword and picking up where she left off? The way it’s explained, if she breaks the vow she would lose the power she gained from the vow. But her not being able to use a sword accomplishes the same negative effect and then some. So if she picked up a new sword wouldn’t she be right back to where she was in strength before she made the vow? Is it possible that the powers that be knew she would break the vow eventually so the benefit she gained did nothing? It would explain why that moment fell so flat for her. But then sukuna breaking his own vows wouldn’t explain how he maintained his power and got benefits from vows he would eventually break. Idk the loose screw is rattling my brain rn.

Hot Take: Nick won’t continue the “Please for me, like this video, subscribe to the page and hit that noti bell” for much longer

As someone who thinks One Piece is the greatest story ever told, i can agree the base plot of One Piece is quite simple, but one thing i find less simple that actually keeps me extremely intrigued is that we don’t know whos meant (if anyone) to be the true big bad. Is it the government?? Is it Blackbeard?? Is someone else gonna come out in the fray?? And btw that is a genuine unknown, cause even if One Piece is seeming more and more politically driven, theres no way the Straw Hats could ignore Blackbeard, beat the Gorosei and Imu, and happily sail to the One Piece. They have to deal with Blackbeard too. And while i don’t think this would happen, it would be really cool in my opinion for them to beat noth the government and the Blackbeard pirates, just to find out that the true final boss is Shanks, and he gonna fight Luffy tooth and nail to get the One Piece before him. While i don’t at all think this will happen, if Shanks lives Through everything, I’d WANT him to do it. Cause at the end of the day, Luffy wouldnt have beaten everyone, theres someone else, the one person who always has been, above Luffy, and while hes been there, hes not been the Pirate King but on his crew, i think Luffy would want to have to beat out anyone that could be looked at as stronger than him

JJK don’t have that many plot holes. People don’t understand the manga enough Not even to sound pretentious. It’s complicated and the viz scans be straight up wrong somethings and be slightly changing words that make things weird. And a lot of people read once and move on, and it’s hard to do that with JJK and actually understand it